Get involved with the Novu Community

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Our Community

At Novu, we’re a vibrant, open-source community driven by passion, collaboration, and a shared love for pushing boundaries. We believe in the power of community-driven development, where every voice matters and every contribution counts. As such, contributions are at the heart of how we evolve and progress forward.

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Join the conversation

• Read our code of conduct
• Say “Hi!” in our Discord Server
• Explore our open issues
• Subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the know

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Getting help

Our fellow community members are always ready to help you get past a blocker. However, you can take a few things into consideration to help them help you:

• Share as many details as you can share. It will help us in debugging the issue.
• If there is any bug, please share steps to reproduce that bug.
• If there is any issue in running Novu on a local machine, please share system details like operating system, RAM size, npm version and node version.
• If there is any issue in our backend SDKs, please mention the SDK version and relevant details.
• If looking for self-hosting support, please share Novu Version and remote server details. Our latest version is 0.24.0. Please be patient with self-hosting help. We are a small team and we will try our best to help you.

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Contributing

All community members are of one of the following four types:

1. Open source users
2. Active member
3. Power member
4. Novu Ambassador

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Become an active community member

• Everyone who joins our community becomes an open-source user automatically.
• You can become an active community member by:
  • Submitting >2 PRs
  • Opening >2 issues
  • Sending >5 messages on Github
  • Commenting >3 times on Github
• Active community members are one step closer to becoming Power community members and then an active moderator.

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Become a power community member

• All active community members are eligible to become a power community member and can become so by having at least one of the following:
  • Submitting 3 PRs
  • Opening 3 Issues
  • Sending 10 Discord messages
  • Commenting >10 times on Github
• Power community members are just one step away from becoming a Novu ambassador.

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Become a Novu Ambassador

A Novu ambassador is a trusted power member of the community that can do the following:

• Love exploring and sharing their knowledge of any technology with other developers.
• Often write and speak about Novu.
• Possess strong Novu expertise and often help and support Novu users within the community.
• Socially influence developers with some knowledge of Novu.
• Consistently contribute to Novu OSS product.

We are launching the Novu Ambassador program soon with amazing perks. Stay tuned!

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Activities

Are you passionate about notifications like we are? There are many different—and easy—ways to get involved.

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Help in onboarding and answering questions.

• Welcome new users into the community
• Answer questions in the community support channel.
• Offer input and opinions about various solutions you have tried.

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Improve our documentation

• Check out our GitHub repo
• No documentation is perfect, and neither is ours
• Help us improve our docs by
  • Updating outdated examples
  • Correcting typos and language for clarity
  • Find and fix broken links, etc.

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Help with the SDKs

• Link to contributors guide
• We have SDKs in various languages and frameworks, most written and maintained by community members.
• You can either become a maintainer there or help the existing maintainers by bringing the SDK up to speed with the latest features present in the core product.
  • We have backend SDKs in the following: Node.js, PHP, .NET, Elixir, Go, Ruby, Python Laravel, and Kotlin
  • And Inbox SDKs: React, JavaScript

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Create content

• Content writers program: Apply to become a content writer with us and get paid to write about use-cases highlighting how you solved a problem using Novu
• Write an article about what you built with Novu and share it with the community. We’ll give you a shout out!

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PRs, issues, and bug reports

• Check out our contributors guide
• Once you’ve gone through our development process, you can contribute directly to open issues.
• Open a new issue if a relevant one isn’t already open.
• Also, you can create bug reports if you find a bug somewhere.
• Or a feature request if you find something that should be a feature but isn’t.

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Participate in office hours

• We have frequent (replace with interval— twice weekly, weekly, etc.) and topic-specific office hours that offer the ability to engage in real-time with Novu staff and other community members
• In these sessions, offer input, opinions, examples, etc. to contribute!

We’re excited to have you on board and look forward to your valuable contributions!

Together, we’ll shape the future of Novu. 🫂